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Gonatopus boivinii
Giraffe's knees is a tuberous perennial arum from seasonally dry tropical woodland and sand forest in East and southern Africa, grown mainly by specialist collectors. Its key is a dry, rest period in the cool season and watering only when it begins to grow with the rains.
Gonatopus boivinii is a robust perennial herbaceous plant belonging to the family Araceae. It is commonly known as giraffe's knees and sand forest arum.
It often grows in sand forests, deciduous woodlands, and forest or woodland margins, usually at altitudes between 40 and 1,000 meters and is found in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and KwaZulu-Natal.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gonatopus boivinii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
